Designers who have watched the homelessness crisis expand during their educational careers seem to have a heightened sense of the design community’s opportunity to creatively engage the issue of homelessness. During this episode, I speak with two young designers: Barron Peper and Jescelle Major, who are trained as an architect and a landscape architect respectively. While working together at the mutli-disciplinary design firm MITHUN, they helped the Low Income Housing Institute or LEEHIGH develop a tiny house village in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood.
Barron’s story is particularly interesting for long-time listeners to the podcast because his first engagement with homelessness was with the Community First! Village in Austin, Texas that I discussed with Alan Graham in Episode 25, and he now works with Rex Holbein and Jenn LaFrenierre at The Block Project, which we discussed in Episode 3.
On the homelandlab.com website, we’ve included a selection of site plans and images from the project Barron and Jescelle discuss.
To start the conversation today I asked Jescelle and Barron: What is a tiny house village?
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Episode 29: Paul Simmons and Sylvana Niehuser
Episode 28: Jonathan Martin and Scott Greenstone of Project Homeless
Episode 27: Marla Torrado
Episode 26: Natasha Ponczek Shoemake
Episode 25: Alan Graham
Episode 24: Corina Luckenbach and Melanie Granger
Episode 23: Mike McGinn
Episode 22: Tim Harris
Episode 21: Sloan Dawson and Sara Zewde
Episode 20: John Malpede
Episode 19: John Wilson
Episode 18: Tamika Butler
Episode 17: Rachel Allen and Allen Compton
Episode 16: Mike O'Brien
Episode 15: Mark Vallianatos
Episode 14: Breanne Schuster
Episode 13: Richard Rothstein
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